Malin Rosqvist, Research project manager


Malin Rosqvist is a research project manager, employed by RISE SICS Västerås since August 2017 but still active at Embedded Systems and Mälardalen University through the projects PROMPT and FuturE.

2009-2017 Malin was a project manager within Embedded Systems at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, MDH. Since joining MDH in 2009 she was specializing in running projects and activities in cooperation with industry, as well as in research communication and public relations. 

At Mälardalen University, Malin is managing the PROMPT project, Professional Master in Software Engineering, aiming at increasing cooperation between industry and academia, above all in terms of life long learning by developing advanced level academic courses for software developers working in industry. The PROMPT project is funded by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation with 50 MSEK, and by the participating companies and universities.

Malin has also been part of the management team for the industrial research school ITS-EASY, the Post Graduate School for Embedded Software and Systems, involving 11 companies and 22 PhD students.  

Previous to her position at Mälardalen University, Malin held a position as marketing manager at ABB, working globally with marketing and sales of industrial robots. Malin holds a MA from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and is Certified Project Manager (IPMA, International Project Management Association). Malin has been board member of the non-profit organisation Swedsoft (2016-2017), aiming at making Sweden an innovation centre for software-intensive systems, thereby increasing competitiveness in Swedish industry. 

Conferences (local chair):
ICST´18: IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
ECSA´15, Dubrovnik, European Conference on Software Architecture
ASE´14, Västerås, Automated Software Engineering
SLE´14, Västerås, International Conference on Software Language Engineering
GPCE´14, Västerås, Generative Programming: Concepts &  Experiences